Once again, apologies for the long absence. Life and work get in the way sometimes. Anyway, I spent part of the last couple of months trying to put together a book manuscript on Thailand that combines some of the posts on this blog (hopefully improved from the original) with some new material. A draft of the manuscript should be done in a couple of weeks — at which point I’ll try to pitch it to a few publishers — but I am posting here a preview of one of the …